March 2009
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Spiegel has an extensive article on Mathias Döring’s efforts to enlighten the world about the Gadara aqueduct which he began following/discovered back in 2004 (I think). Here’s a bit of a tease from the article: The tunnel was discovered by Mathias Döring, a hydromechanics professor in Darmstadt, Germany. Treading on moss-covered steps, he squeezes his…
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I suspect that — in the wake of this Golb business — media outlets will overreact by giving attention to every fringe theory … a case in point is Ha’aretz’s item on Rachel Elior’s views on the Essenes. While I think it is reasonable to question whether the Essenes were the ‘authors’ of the Dead…
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I think I missed linking to this (png) mockup of Vergil’s purported Facebook page (it’s generally billed as “the Aeneid on Facebook”), which was making the rounds of the lists again this week … synchronicitally, in the wake of news that some juror at a trial was Twittering, CBS was speculating on other trials which…
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Tantalizingly brief item from SANA: The National Excavation and Restoration Expedition uncovered four limestone statues during excavations in a buried cemetery within a private real-estate property in the Palmyra oasis. Two of the statues depict women clad in traditional Palmyran attire consisting of cloaks, long gowns and turban. The other two statues depict men, one…
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obambulate (Worthless Word for the Day) inanition (Dictionary.com) dermatoglyphics (Wordsmith)
rogue classicism 